Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Sow Common

Other OS name in the Parish of Walsgrave on Sowe

Etymology

. Cf. boscus de Sohe 1203 Cur and vastum de Sowe 1411Coventry .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement

Walsgrave on Sowe